chapter 3 - product design & process selection

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Chapter 3 - Product Design & Process Selection

Operations Managementby

R. Dan Reid & Nada R. Sanders2nd Edition © Wiley 2005

PowerPoint Presentation by R.B. Clough - UNH

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Product & Service Design The process of deciding on the

unique characteristics of a company’s product & service offerings

Serves to define a company’s customer base, image, competition and future growth

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Products versus Services Products:

Tangible offerings Dimensions, materials, tolerances &

performance standards Services:

Intangible offerings Physical elements + sensory,

esthetic, & psychological benefits

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Strategic Importance Products & service offerings must

support the company’s business strategy by satisfying the target customers’ needs & preferences

If not, the company will lose its customer base and its market position will erode

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Product Life Cycle Product life cycle

stages Introduction Growth Maturity Decline

Facility & process investment depends on life cycle

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Steps in Product Design Idea Development:

A need is identified & a product idea to satisfy it is put together

Product Screening: Initial ideas are evaluated for difficulty &

likelihood of success Preliminary Design & Testing

Market testing & prototype development Final Design

Product & service characteristics are set

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Idea Development Existing & target customers

Customer surveys & focus groups Benchmarking

Studying “best in class” companies from your industry or others and comparing their practices & performance to your own

Reverse engineering Disassembling a competitor’s product & analyzing

its design characteristics & how it was made Suppliers, employees and technical advances

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Product Screening Operations:

Are production requirements consistent with existing capacity?

Are the necessary labor skills & raw materials available?

Marketing: How large is the market niche? What is the long-term potential for the product?

Finance: What is the expected return on investment?

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Break-Even Analysis

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Break-Even Analysis Total cost = fixed costs + variable costs (quantity):

Revenue = selling price (quantity)

Break-even point is where total costs = revenue:

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Break-Even Analysis Example A firm estimates that the fixed cost of

producing a line of footwear is $52,000 with a $9 variable cost for each pair produced. They want to know: If each pair sells for $25, how many pairs

must they sell to break-even? If they sell 4000 pairs at $25 each, how

much money will they make?

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Example Solved Break-even point:

Profit = total revenue – total costs

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Preliminary Design & Testing General performance characteristics

are translated into technical specifications

Prototypes are built & tested (maybe offered for sale on a small scale)

Bugs are worked out & designs are refined

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Final Design Specifications are set & then used

to: Develop processing and service

delivery instructions Guide equipment selection Outline jobs to be performed Negotiate contracts with suppliers

and distributors

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Other Design factors Design for Manufacture Product Life Cycle Concurrent Engineering

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Design for Manufacture (DMF)

Minimize parts Design parts for

multiply applications

Use modular design

Avoid tools Simplify

operations

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DFM Benefits Lower costs:

Lower inventories (fewer, standardized components)

Less labor required (simpler flows, easier tasks)

Higher quality: Simple, easy-to-make products means

fewer opportunities to make mistakes

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Concurrent Engineering A design approach that uses

multifunctional teams to simultaneously design the product & process

Replaces a traditional ‘over-the-wall’ approach where one group does their part & then hands off the design to the next group

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Sequential Design

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Concurrent Engineering

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Concurrent Engineering Benefits Representatives from the different groups

can better consider trade-offs in cost & design choices as each decision is being made

Development time is reduced due to less rework (traditionally, groups would argue with earlier decisions & try to get them changed)

Emphasis is on problem-solving (not placing blame on the ‘other group’ for mistakes)

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Process Selection Process selection is based on five

considerations Type of process; range from intermittent to continuous Degree of vertical integration Flexibility of resources Mix between capital & human resources Degree of customer contact

Process types can be:Project ProcessBatch ProcessLine ProcessContinuous Process

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Types of Processes Intermittent operations:

Capable of producing a large variety of product designs in relatively low volumes

Continuous operations: Capable of producing one (or a few)

standardized designs in very high volumes

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Continuum of Process Types

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Differences between Intermittent and Continuous Operations

Decision Intermittent Continuous Product Variety Large Small Degree of Standardization Low High Path through Facility Varied pattern Line Flow Critical Resource Labor Equipment Importance of Work Skills High Low Type of Equipment General Purpose Specialized Degree of Automation Low High Throughput Time Longer Shorter Work-in-Process Inventory More Less

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Product Strategies and Process Choice

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Process Selection Facility Layout

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Process Technologies Automation Automated Material Handling:

Automated guided vehicles (AGV) Automated storage & retrieval systems (AS/RS)

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software Robotics & Numerically-Controlled (NC)

equipment Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)

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Service DesignApproaches to Service Design:

Substitute Technology for People Get the Customer Involved Provide High Level of Customer

Attention

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HomeworkCh. 3 Problems: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8.